the rapper kanye-west he spends less and less time on music and more on getting into new trouble. This week, the artist has decided charge at the photographers, in the middle of an airport, looking for a bit of repercussion —which, of course, we are going to give him—. According to them reporters and paparazzi they profit from their image, and will do everything in its power to change that situation, or what is the same, he also wants his piece of the cake. The nice thing about the story is how he has raised it.
Kanye West proclaims himself the first flesh-and-blood NFT in history
Good thing Kanye West didn’t make it to President of the United States. Imagine him at a press conference asking royalties to all the journalists for her pretty face as she announces that her country is entering a new war. No one took him seriously when he ran for the presidential elections — it is rumored that neither his wife voted for him, as was seen in a post on Instagram — nor no one has taken him seriously this monday, after some statements he made to some journalists at the Miami International Airport.
The rapper turned to a cameraman and said the following: «You do not give us any percentage of what you earn with us. It’s really one-sided. You can follow us, record us and our children and we do not take anything in return. I’m going to change that».
The journalist replied that without photography, nothing would be well documented, but West’s plan was to get noticed so he could advertise your new NFT business: “NFT people get paid in perpetuity when they put out a product. My image is part of something that I should charge. In other words, we don’t know if the rapper knows about NFTs or not, but what is clear is that wants to get a slice of it. If it leaks, leaks. Kanye West has dropped that his face, osus image rights are an NFT itself. And if you take a photo of him, the benefits must be shared between the material author of the photo and the artist. Kind of like passive income that can be established on OpenSea when an NFT changes hands.
Is it for privacy? Or is it because of the opportunity?
If we didn’t already have enough with the golems of WillyRex and with Twitter selling drawings generated by artificial intelligence for thousands of euros, West adds fuel to the fire trying to enter a market that seems unknown. NFTs are not designed to protect a person’s image rights. In fact, if we get serious, NFTs do not protect the rights of anything at all. have an NFT of something it does not legally protect you as the author or owner of anything. Not even the platforms that trade NFTs consider copyright as a variable. And that’s supposed to be the strength of non-fungible tokens.
What Kanye West proposes regulated only by law. In any case, it could reopen the melon of intimacy and the public image of celebrities, but little else. However, wanting to bring NFTs into the equation, what the rapper proves is that wants to get into a business that has been late. The cause seems to be the least of it.
